Ms. Suerie Moon :: Sustainability Science Program :: Center for International Development

Sustainability Science Program

Suerie Moon
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
502C Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0739
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: suerie_moon "at" ksgphd.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Pre-doctoral Fellow

Suerie Moon is a Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard�s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard�s Kennedy School of Government. Her research interests include the ways in which civil society organizations (CSOs) shape policymaking at the global level, and the accountability relationships that develop between and among CSOs and global public institutions. She also works on analyzing the relationship between access to medicines, innovation and intellectual property rights policies, and the implications for equity in public health in the developing world. Moon is currently a contributor to the Institutional Innovations for Linking Knowledge with Action in Global Health Project funded by the KSG Dean�s Acting in Time initiative. The project takes as a case study the historical and contemporary international responses to malaria, in order to draw broader conclusions about effective global health institutions with applicability to other health areas. She is a recipient of the Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (2007) that will enable her to begin field work in India and Geneva and a Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Research Fund grant (2007) to support research and travel on the topic of civil society engagement in technical policy advocacy. � She is also a research assistant on a project examining the negotiation of accountability relationships between civil society, national governments and international financial institutions in six developing countries.� Prior to coming to Harvard, she was a campaigner, researcher, and writer for the M�decins Sans Fronti�res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) international Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, where she focused on intellectual property rights, equity prices for medicines, and research and development into �neglected diseases.� She received a Masters in Public Affairs with Distinction from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Yale University.�

The Origins and Evolution of Technologies for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Malaria. As part of the Institutional Innovations for Linking Knowledge with Action in Global Health Project, Moon examines the circumstances under which effective tools for combating malaria emerged at different times in history.�Questions addressed include: What were the institutional arrangements that resulted in the development of new anti-malarial products, such as drugs, insecticides, diagnostics and bednets? How did these new tools get taken up or diffused, and what factors accelerated or impeded how new knowledge about malaria traveled across national and cultural contexts? How did parasite resistance to various tools emerge, and how did institutions respond to this emergence? The study identifies effective institutional arrangements for innovation and dissemination of new products that are applicable to a broader context.